(Tiểu luận) programming fundamentals co1027 assignment 2 the sword in the stone

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - HO CHI MINH CITY HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS - CO1027 ASSIGNMENT THE SWORD IN THE STONE Version 1.0 Ho Chi Minh City, 03/2023 h HCMC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - VNU-HCM FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ASSIGNMENT’S SPECIFICATION Version 1.1 Assignment’s outcome After completing this assignment, students review and make good use of: • Pointer • Object Oriented Programming (OOP) • Singly Linked List Introduction Ultimecia, the most powerful witch of all time, due to suffering in love, has decided to destroy all of humanity with time-compression magic, thereby merging past, present, and future Without the past, present, and future, there will be no nostalgia, ambition, and development, and humanity will cease to exist To execute the time compression spell, Ultimecia planted a magic rose The petals of the rose will gradually fall over time When the last petal falls, the time compression spell will be complete To ensure the safety of the rose, Ultimecia hid it behind a dark maze with many monsters to prevent any Knights from approaching If any Knight can overcome the dark maze and defeat Ultimecia at the end of the labyrinth, the spell will be canceled, and humanity will be saved from the apocalypse To defeat Ultimecia, one must possess King Arthur’s Excalibur sword After defeating Bowser and rescuing Princess Guinevere, King Arthur plunged the Excalibur sword into a stone; retiring from his throne and life as a knight, he and Princess Guinevere lived in seclusion in the wilderness To retrieve the Excalibur sword from the stone, one must have three artifacts: the Paladin’s shield, Lancelot’s spear, and a strand of Guinevere’s hair These artifacts are hidden in different places within the dark maze Even if the sword is retrieved from the stone, only a Knights of the Round Table can use Excalibur Moreover, a lone knight cannot defeat countless monsters and Ultimecia’s powerful magic Therefore, a group of talented Knights has gathered to undertake a new mission full of challenges and glory: to retrieve the sword from the stone, defeat Ultimecia, and save humanity Programming Fundamentals’ assignment - Semester (2022 - 2023) h Page 1/16 HCMC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY - VNU-HCM FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Will the Knights be able to retrieve the sword from the stone? Will Ultimecia abandon her extreme intentions in her suffering? All will be answered in this assignment Input data The program’s input is contained in two input files for the Army of Knights and the events in the journey to defeat Ultimecia 3.1 Army of Knights The data file name for the Army of Knights will be stored in the variable file armyknights This file has the following format: • Line contains a positive integer n, n